Natasha Mascarenhas
Reporter at Bloomberg News covering venture capital, startups, and Silicon Valley technology, including AI companies and the changing work culture around AI. She was previously a senior reporter at TechCrunch covering early-stage startups and venture capital trends.
Round-the-Clock AI Tools Are Keeping Tech Workers on Standby
Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas argues that AI has not eased the work burden for many Silicon Valley employees so much as changed its form. In her reporting, engineers and founders describe a culture in which AI agents run around the clock, workers feel obliged to monitor them, and competitive revenue targets turn productivity gains into longer hours, higher anxiety and less room to step away.
Anthropic Seeks $30 Billion at More Than $900 Billion Valuation
Bloomberg’s technology program framed the day’s AI trade around access to scarce capacity: Nvidia chips for China, private capital for Anthropic, and manufacturing scale for Anduril. Its central report was that Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion, a deal Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas said would mark a major shift in the private AI hierarchy if completed. The program also treated Jensen Huang’s last-minute role in Trump’s China trip as a test of whether chip access can become a diplomatic deliverable without undermining Beijing’s domestic semiconductor strategy.